These pages record my activities whilst working on sabbatical as a visiting scientist at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, from February to April 2006.

My planned activities are set out in the initial research schedule.

The table of contents links to all pages. Click here to go to the first page of the visit diary.

Veerampattinam (2002), one of the information Villages in Pondicherry. Severely damaged in the tsunami in 2004.